unfair punishment or learning experience?

[emily]

What do you think?

My son’s teacher sent him home with humiliating punishment for missing school

The boy was made to find words in a word search puzzle related to his absence — such as excuse, graduate, responsibility, and success.

nypost.com

 

[MrDawn]

He missed a day. It happens. You'd figure the teacher would be mature enough to comprehend that not everyone can be at work or at school every single day.

 

[passenger]

But wait......we just have one side of the story being told here: besides the mother's version, the additional comments are from (social-media) "commenters" to the mother's version.
Except one: "But one person said the mom was reading too much into it. I bet it’s just a coincidence and the class is learning some new words. Not everything is about you,” they wrote, seemingly overlooking the ‘Miss School, Miss Out’ title."
Maybe it was a class project? Maybe there were 10 other kids in that class who were chronically 'truant' & the teacher wanted to point out some of these things to the whole class. Did the kid come home bawling that he was being picked on or ridiculed?
We'll never know.